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August 26, 2008

Training Run + Daily Mile

I’m sure you’re curious about things to do tonight, Tuesday. But Tuesdays are not for events. Except the Nike Human Race training run at Guero’s, which is an awesome event. Free tacos and drinks and friends and running routes, what more could you ask for?!

Well, perhaps an online community of runners? Daily Mile is a training website started by a cool local guy for logging workouts, talking about workouts, interacting with other runners, posting messages and encouragement, and more. It’s kind of amazing: a few weeks ago a friend pointed me to this site and there was a handful of users actively posting; now, it’s full of people talking, sharing, exploring, questioning, answering. It’s awesome! And it’s all from an Austin dude.

So no events. Go run. And then Rlog about it. Rog about it? Tlog about it? Trog about it? Training Log! Trog! Trog about it!

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August 1, 2008

Super Sports Saturday – Free Bikram, Running, Volleyball

Saturday mornings aren’t for sleeping in anymore! Here’s the lineup for this weekend:

8 am: Nike+ Human Race training run at Starbucks (24th & Guadalupe)

… run 3 or 5 miles, drink coffee, hydrate with lots of water

10 am: FREE Bikram Yoga at Barton Springs Pool, southside, off Robert E. Lee.

… bring a yoga mat and towel, be prepared to sweat your face off. Can’t wait to see Wayne of YogaGroove again! Jump in Barton Springs to cool off–maybe on the free side if you aren’t planning on lounging for awhile. [This happens every Saturday in August--awesome!]

11:30 am: Head to Zilker sand volleyball courts.

Because it’s Saturday morning and you play EVERY Saturday morning.

… early crowd starts to dissipate because it suddenly got hot, you get onto the court immediately, play ten games in a row because you keep winning, and your stomach is slowly eating itself because you forgot to schedule in a food break.

1:30 pm: P. Terry’s never tasted so good.

… Maybe you’ll have some Flip Happy crepes too. You’re so freakin’ hungry by now.

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April 30, 2008

Sports Wednesday + Kanye!

Tonight is Kanye West’s Glow in The Dark Tour with Rhianna concert at the Erwin Center, and if I weren’t so committed to playing sand volleyball, I’d go. Ok, ok, if I had bought the $70 tickets right when they came out, I’d go, but since that’s not the case, I will be playing sand volleyball out at Zilker Park.

You could also go to Doc’s for another week of SoCo Run Club!

We can’t talk live music without mentioning that it’s Willie Nelson‘s birthday. The old man is 75 and still wears wifebeaters. I’m not so fond, but so many Austinites are that in the interest of keeping readers informed, I had to mention it. But is he even playing anywhere? I can’t find the info, and I don’t like him enough to keep searching. Fill me in if you know!

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April 23, 2008

What to do on Wednesday

Wednesday this week is offering a doubleheader of athletic options. There’s always SoCo Run Club, the awesome run club I won’t stop talking about, but now there’s a new competitor: Wednesday pickup volleyball at Zilker.

So, there’s a friend of mine who started the meetup.com volleyball group (you can access it through atxvb.com too … he’s a web developer). Normally I would think he’s awesome for starting something like that, but I must admit that I’m a little snobby/territorial about playing volleyball at Zilker. See, I started going out there last year, and it’s where I met a bunch of the people I now consider my closest friends. And I didn’t use a meetup group! We just met! Naturally!

Which, of course, is some silly logic. I should be glad that other people are getting a shortcut to making friends, I should be proud of my friend for starting something that helps other people make friends, I make friends from the group, and so on. I just don’t want these people to think I made my friends off the internet … because I didn’t! But what’s so wrong with that? After all, aren’t I encouraging readers of my blog to participate in things I tell them to–through the internet–and therefore make friends ostensibly from the internet?

And the funny thing is, I like a lot of the people from the meetup group. And if I didn’t already go to Zilker, I would be THRILLED to find the meetup group, I would join, and I would start going to Zilker! It’s just that sense of wanting everyone to know that I was there first…

However, you should ignore my elitist, proprietary ramblings and come out to Zilker tonight to play some sand volleyball with some cool people. Myself excluded, as I have just demonstrated that I am not, in fact, cool. ;-)

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February 11, 2008

The Worst Run of My Life

I attempted a 12-miler on Saturday morning and thought I was going to pass out on the side of the road, as my stomach was ripped out of my body by three fists grabbing and twisting it until it snapped. Or because I ate a big egg-white omlette with ground beef and turkey bacon and then went on a run, and apparently not eating carbs before running is indeed a bad choice.

You might remember that my nutritionist said that the body will start burning fat instead of carbs, so I should be fine running the half marathon on this low-carb diet. This is a lie. I never want to feel like I did on Saturday ever again. I am not running the half marathon this Sunday. Coincidentally, my boyfriend, who I was running the half marathon with-ish (he was running the full), hurt his achilles tendon and isn’t running either.

I dug a little into the research about burning fat instead of carbs, and apparently it DOES work. It just take two weeks for your body to truly convert. Two weeks?! She knew my marathon was in two weeks, why on earth would she prescribe this?!

I am learning more and more how to eat on the diet, so that’s going better, but I am frustrated by the length of time it takes the body to adjust. Truth is, I’d rather be playing sand volleyball than running 13 miles, so I don’t really mind not running the half marathon, but it’s just the insensitivity to my plans that’s bothering me.

Moral of the story: Low-carb is doable, and doable while exercising, IF you give your body time to adjust. I’m not as grouchy this week, so that’s good too. The body is amazing, and can adjust, but must be given time!

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February 9, 2008

Argh Running

I’m experiencing more ambivalence about this half marathon business. My 3-miler was tough and slow today, I just didn’t have the energy. Damn low carb. But I’m getting more used to it, and it’s becoming easier, as any diet does. I did have a drink or two last night–hard liquor only, of course, as it has no carbs. :-)

So referencing back to the post I wrote awhile ago about athletes and their neuroses and competitiveness to the bitter end, I’m still trying to sort out why running is so hard for me to really accept into my life. I ran cross country and track, and even track in college, so why the beef with it now?

Because I never really loved running. I never step on the trail, breathe in deep, feel my body hit the dirt, and sigh, thinking ‘This is so wonderful.’ The day can wonderful, or I can be excited about a time, but the run itself? Yuck. But it’s not just a non-love for running, because plenty of people don’t love it but can enjoy it.

It’s that all my life, running was a means to an end. My high school basketball coach forced us to run cross country, and when I was fast, she took note. In preseason workouts during college, the strength and conditioning coach was so impressed with my speed that he raved about me to the head coach. I ran college track because I quit basketball and didn’t know what else to do with myself. Running has never been the end in itself.

So can I change my mindset? Can I “trick” myself or re-teach myself to consider running the game?

Running is the game, running is the game, running is the game, running is the game, running is the game, running is the game…

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January 24, 2008

Feet

My feet are messed up.

I’m training for the Austin Half-Marathon on February 17. I am a runner … but I hate running the majority of the time. I happen to be naturally gifted with endurance and speed, but running has always been something I do to get in shape for something else. I’ve never loved running for the pure joy of running.

My boyfriend, however, loves running. He ran his first marathon in October and loved it, and he’s doing the Austin Marathon. I’m training for the half for him–not just for him, but because I was curious as to what it was about the marathon that made him enjoy it so much. I haven’t found what I’m looking for yet.
But along the way, I’ve developed a bunion, and right now I happen to have a blood blister on top of my dang bunion. Nature is a bit ironic. Don’t only old people get bunions? And why did I never suffer from injuries throughout high school and college sports (D1 basketball and track), but I try to do some recreational stuff and I start falling apart?
Perhaps my body is trying to remind me that it doesn’t actually enjoy running. But I do it because it’s a goal, it’s measurable, and there’s an end result. Athletes never change … and we love being called athletes all of our lives. Athletes have messed up feet.

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